Clergyman's

“Of the whole population of Hindustan it is notorious that five parts in six are composed of Hindus, the adorers of images, and the whole concerns of trade and manufacture… are entirely under the management of these classes. Were it, therefore, ever so much my desire to convert them to the true faith, it would be impossible, otherwise than through excision of millions of men… but the massacre of a whole people can never be any business of mine.
- Jahangir

Jahangir, when a prince, at one time intended demolishing some of the Hindu temples at Banaras but desisted there from on Man Singh's intervention. In his reign conversions to Islam were encouraged, conversions back from Islam to Hinduism were punished. When he visited Kangra, he celebrated the Muslim occupation of the fort by desecrating its famous temple. At Pushkar he broke the image of Varaha and a bull was sacrificed to signify the victory of Islam over idolatry.
- Jahangir

When Jahangir learnt that the Hindus and Muslims intermarried freely in Kashmir, “and both give and take girls, taking them is good but giving them, God forbid”. And any violation of this order was to be visited with capital punishment.
- Jahangir

The common people poverty so great and miserable that the life of the people can be depicted or accurately described only as the home of stark want and dwelling place of bitter woe.
- Jahangir

The common people poverty so great and miserable that the life of the people can be depicted or accurately described only as the home of stark want and dwelling place of bitter woe.
- Jahangir

The common people poverty so great and miserable that the life of the people can be depicted or accurately described only as the home of stark want and dwelling place of bitter woe.
- Jahangir

After Akbar’s death, Islamization was gradually revived during the subsequent reigns of Jahangir and Shahjahan. On Emperor Jahangir, seen as a liberal and kind-hearted ruler, records Shash Fath-I Kangra that ‘he devoted all his exertions to the promulgation of the Muhammadan religion...’ and that his ‘whole efforts were always directed to the extinguishing of the fire of Paganism...’
- Jahangir

After Akbar’s death, Islamization was gradually revived during the subsequent reigns of Jahangir and Shahjahan. On Emperor Jahangir, seen as a liberal and kind-hearted ruler, records Shash Fath-I Kangra that ‘he devoted all his exertions to the promulgation of the Muhammadan religion...’ and that his ‘whole efforts were always directed to the extinguishing of the fire of Paganism...’
- Jahangir

Abdulla Khan Uzbeg’s force of 12,000 horse and 20,000 foot destroyed, in the Kalpi-Kanauj area alone, all towns, took all their goods, their wives and children as slaves and beheaded and ‘immortered’ the chiefest of their men. No wonder he once declared that “I made prisoners of five lacs of men and women and sold them. They all became Muhammadans. From their progeny there will be crores by the day of judgement.
- Jahangir